I have to agree with such websites; every time I try to encode a movie in Jellyfin on my Pi 5, every service I host there freezes for a few moments.
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Oneser@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoI’m specifically looking into this at the moment as I have been gifted a pi 5.
Most websites say avoid trying to host jellyfin on a pi 5 (codec and hardware issues are frequently noted). Do you have experience that shows these are non-issues?
roydbt@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Any low power device is going to struggle with video playback unless you’re doing direct streaming. The exception being the new Intel N line of processors that have capable enough GPUs to do the transcoding. If all you’re after is decent transcoding performance for H264/H265 video, anything newer than Intel’s 7-8th gen CPUs will do the job.
For reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hard…
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Jellyfin supports HW transcoding on Rockchip too, but the issue with the Pi5 specifically is that it doesn’t have a hardware media decoder so it’s actually worse than the Pi4 if you can get HW transcoding running on it.